Impact of Flexible Work Practices on Employee Retention at Mobilink Pakistan

Abstract

Employee retention is one of the most important factors that can help employers increase organization performance. This study discusses that employee retention can be achieved through the provision of family friendly policies that is flexible work practices. This study investigated the link between the provision of flexible schedule arrangements and organization commitment and the provision of flexible leave arrangements and turnover intentions. A quantitative approach was followed to conduct the research through questionnaires. These quetionnaires are distributed among 100 employees of a telecom company. The analysis showed that flexible schedule arrangements increase organization commitment and flexible leave arrangements are negatively related to turnover intentions but not to a significant level. It is recommended that flexible work culture should be promoted throughout the organizations and these arrangements should be designed according to the employee and job preferences for this will help retain talented employees in the organization.